By The Numbers: Sporting KC at Colorado Rapids - Aug. 29, 2015

Sporting Kansas City's four-game road swing continues Saturday when Peter Vermes' men square off against the Colorado Rapids. Kickoff at Dick's Sporting Goods Park is set for 8 p.m. CT, with three hours of live television coverage beginning at 7:30 on KMCI-TV 38 The Spot and SKCTV. Radio broadcasts will also be available in the Kansas City area on 99.3 FM and 1340 AM.

Recent results in the fixture have favored Sporting Kansas City, who are unbeaten in 13 straight MLS matches against Colorado dating back to 2009 with an 8-0-5 record (including postseason). Sporting KC cruised to a 2-0 victory when the sides last met in June, highlighted by Kristian Nemeth's superb first-half strike and an own goal from Sam Cronin. We examine the matchup in our By The Numbers preview...

Head-to-head

• Sporting KC is unbeaten in 13 straight MLS matches against Colorado with an 8-0-5 record, including two postseason wins in 2011. The Rapids last beat Kansas City in March 2009 at Dick's Sporting Good's Park.
• Sporting KC is unbeaten in five straight visits to Dick's Sporting Goods Park with a 2-0-3 record, including a 3-2 victory on their most recent trip in March 2014. Graham Zusi, Benny Feilhaber and Dom Dwyer scored in that match as SKC erased a 2-1 second-half deficit.
• Saturday will be the 54th regular season meeting all-time (SKC leads 23-17-13) and the 68th in all competitions (SKC leads 29-22-16), making Colorado the most frequent opponent in Kansas City history.
• Graham Zusi has three goals and four assists in 10 MLS matches played against Colorado (including postseason). He has scored in two of the last three fixtures against the Rapids (8/31/13 and 3/29/14).
• Benny Feilhaber has scored three goals in six MLS matches against Colorado, including one in two of the last three meetings (8/31/13 and 3/29/14). He also provided the cross that led to Sam Cronin's own goal on June 27 at Sporting Park.
• Krisztian Nemeth scored the game-winning goal on a cross from Chance Myers in a 2-0 win at Sporting Park on June 27.
• Dom Dwyer scored a 92nd-minute game-winner in a 3-2 triumph over Colorado on March 29, 2014, the last time the clubs met at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

Colorado Rapids

• 2015 MLS record: 7-9-9, 30 points (10th in West)
• 2015 MLS home record: 4-5-4 (15 GF, 18 GA)
• Last five MLS matches: 2-3-0, 6 points (L-L-L-W-W)
• Colorado has won five of their last eight matches after winning just two of their first 17.
• Colorado ranks last in MLS with 0.92 goals scored per game. Their 23 total goals are six fewer than any other team.
• Colorado's 26 goals allowed are fewest in MLS, and their 1.04 goals against average is second only to Vancouver (1.00).
• Colorado's four home wins are tied for the fewest in MLS (4-5-4 record).
• Colorado has tied none of their last 10 games after drawing nine of their first 15.
• Ten of Colorado's 23 goals in the regular season have come after the 75th minute. The Rapids have outscored their opponents 10-3 in the final 15 minutes plus stoppage time.
• Colorado is winless when trailing at halftime (0-5-2) and has won just two of five matches in which they have led at halftime (2-2-1).
• Clint Irwin ranks third in MLS with a 74.5 save percentage and fourth with a 1.04 goals against average.

Sporting KC

• 2015 MLS record: 11-6-7, 40 points (3rd in West)
• 2015 MLS road record: 3-5-3 (16 GF, 18 GA)
• Last five MLS matches: 2-2-1, 7 points (T-W-W-L-L)
• SKC's 11 goals conceded since Aug. 15 are the second-most over a three-game span in club regular season history.
• Sixteen of SKC's 33 goals against have been conceded over the last seven matches (zero clean sheets). In contrast, SKC allowed 17 goals in their first 17 MLS matches with nine shutouts.
• SKC is averaging 1.63 goals per MLS match, on pace to be the club's third-highest scoring season in team history behind 1996 (1.91 per game) and 1997 (1.78 per game).
• SKC is the only MLS team to have three players with eight or more league goals (Dwyer, Feilhaber, Nemeth). No other team has three players with seven goals and just two (LA and Columbus) have three players with six.
• Benny Feilhaber has 18 assists in all competitions this year, one shy of breaking the single-season club record first set by Preki in 2003.
• Tim Melia leads MLS goalkeepers with a .656 winning percentage as a starter (9-4-3 record).
• SKC's 44 combined MLS matches played by 2015 SuperDraft selections (Dia 20, Abdul-Salaam 13, Hallisey 11) are most in MLS.
• SKC leads MLS with 31 regular season road wins since 2011 and is the only club during that time with a winning road record (31-29-19).

Milestones and miscellany

• Dom Dwyer has scored 41 career goals for Sporting KC in all competitions, one shy of taking sole possession of fifth place in club history (currently tied with Kei Kamara).
• Paulo Nagamura is 56 minutes shy of 20,000 minutes played in his MLS career (including postseason). He would be the first player on Sporting KC's current roster to reach that milestone.
• Seth Sinovic is one shy of his 150th career MLS appearance (including playoffs).

Team stats (2015 regular season)

MLS rank in parenthesis (Opta stats as of Aug. 28, 2015)

Recent #COLvSKC Meetings

• Regular season record vs. Colorado: 23-17-13
• Regular season road record vs. Colorado: 5-14-8